The Physics of Energy sources Nuclear Fusion（的物理能源核聚变）.pdf

The Physics of Energy sources Nuclear Fusion B. Maffei Bruno.maffei@manchester.ac.uk www.jb.man.ac.uk/~bm Nuclear Fusion 1 What is nuclear fusion?   We have seen that fission is the Fission fragmentation of a heavy nucleus into 2 more stable components   Needs to be triggered by neutron Fusion   According to the plot B/A versus Mass number A, fusion of 2 light nuclei into a more stable nucleus is also an exothermic reaction   In this case to need to bring to 2 nuclei close to each other for the strong force to come into action   Need to overcome the Coulomb barrier due to nuclei repulsion   Need to give some energy for the reaction to occur. Nuclear Fusion Figure from wikipedia 2 Some interesting reactions 3 1 2 3 5.49 MeV (1) p + d → He +γ H + H → He +γ d + d → α +γ 2 2 4 23.85 MeV (2) H + H → He +γ (3) 3 2 2 3 3.27 MeV d + d → He + n H + H → He + n or (4) d + d → t + p 2 2 3 1 4.03 MeV H + H → H + H (5) d + t → α + n 2 3 4 17.59 MeV